Tag: Farmcrowdy

Expansion to accommodate other verticals can be one way of identifying companies with a high growth potential. Farmcrowdy, a digital agritech startup that makes use of technology to connect farm sponsors with real, mostly rural farmers has launched its first subsidiary, Farmgate Africa. This move by Farmcrowdy to ...

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform yesterday won the Digital Business of the Year (2018) award in Africa. The award was granted at the annual Global African Business Awards (GABA) ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Launched in 2017, GABA, the world’s premier annual business award was created to ...

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s digital agriculture platform which allows Nigerians to venture in and sponsor agriculture, today announced the launch of 7,500 acres of new maize and rice farms in Nigerian states, Kaduna and Kwara. Sponsorship will be open from the 4th of April and 9th of April, 2018 for Maize and ...

The Techstars Atlanta Accelerator is a three-month program which is designed to help entrepreneurs gain traction through deep mentor engagement, rapid iteration cycles, and fundraising preparation. So far, they have done that exceedingly well. To help entrepreneurs who might be interested in applying for this program, Atlanta 17 company, Farmcrowdy ...

Nigeria's Farmcrowdy, an online platform allowing Nigerians to venture in and sponsor agriculture has closed $1 million in seed funding to scale its operations with plans to expand into a combined 20 states in Nigeria. The $1m was raised from Cox Enterprises, Techstars Ventures, Social Capital, Hallett Capital and Right-Side Capital; as ...

One of the Sustainable development goals set for the hear 2030 is "Zero hunger". Well, before you can achieve zero hunger, you must have had food security to a very large extent. I must say I'm quite happy to see that some tech start-ups in Nigeria are taking up this ...

Some days back, Nigerian AgriTech startup, Farmcrowdy took a giant step on the celebration of their one year anniversary by launching their mobile app. The occasion which was graced by partners, farm sponsors, beneficial farmers gave all attendees a realer and closer look at what Farmcrowdy is actually doing for ...

Highlights... The journey so far Farmcrowdy's new app - Download here. From a farmer's perspective Beyond just sponsoring a farm I was fortunate to attend Farmcrowdy's one year anniversary and app launch event at the four points Sheraton, Lagos. What blew me away most was not the exotic venue, or ...

Read the beginning part of the interview HERE. Most Startups sure have humble beginnings. Did you have to start yours from your room? We did have our humble beginnings. I had to keep a job to work on Farmcrowdy after work hours and to fund it along with my ...

Hey, there's a concluding part to this interview. Read that HERE. Onyeka Akumah is the CEO and co-founder of FarmCrowdy, a platform that connects farm sponsors to farmers. Years ago, this young man had the desire to invest in Nigeria's agriculture sector but was faced with some problems. Part of these problems was ...

Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform has been selected by TechStars Atlanta as one of the members of the 2017 Class to participate in its accelerator program in partnership with Cox Enterprises. This makes it the only African startup that will participate in the programme. Farmcrowdy’s CEO, Onyeka Akumah said: ...